Manufacturing Plants
The original Ruston works (Waterside South, Lincoln) focused on Gas Turbine manufacture from 1967 becoming the head office of Ruston Gas Turbines Ltd (RGT Ltd). Napier Turbochargers moved to the site from Liverpool, who had been owned by English Electric since 1942.
With the change of ownership in 1989 the name was changed to European Gas Turbines Ltd (EGT Ltd), following a spell as Alstom Gas Turbines Ltd the company is now known as Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery Ltd.
The design and research centre in Lincoln opened in May 1957.
Its gas turbines are still manufactured in the Ruston Works in Lincoln and widely used around the world. Siemens announced in September 2009 that Gas Turbine packaging operations were to move abroad with the Lincoln site becoming 'feeder' plant.
Technically, Ruston & Hornsby Ltd existed at the Vulcan Foundry in Newton-le-Willows in Merseyside until 2002, which was known as Ruston Diesels (former Ruston Paxman Diesels). It was taken over by MAN B&W Diesel AG on 12 June 2000.
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